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Re: Show HN: Lost Pixel Platform – visual regression testing for your front end

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Post by divdev_ » Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 5:40 PM UTC

quaffapint wrote: post #4

One quick comment is I had to go to your github repo's readme to actually see an example in action. You should have a similar graphic showing the scanning right in your landing page head.

Good that we have it at least somewhere discoverable! Thanks for the feedback, we will improve on this!

What would actually make you understand that immediately?

Re: Show HN: Lost Pixel Platform – visual regression testing for your front end

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Post by divdev_ » Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 5:42 PM UTC

CSSer wrote: post #8

Can you speak to (the lazy among us) how this compares to the existing visual regressing testing solution[0] currently offered by Chromatic, the company behind Storybook? Thanks! [0]: https://www.chromatic.com/features/test EDIT: I checked back in on this and it appears it on the homepage under FAQs "Lost Pixel core is open source. You could build your own visual testing workflow with it or use it completely for free…

We are different in a way that we offer holistic solution not really bound to storybook. You could do lots of other visual tests with lost pixel e.g. make tests of your react or vue pages or even crazier, test your results of playwright and cypress tests!

Re: Show HN: Lost Pixel Platform – visual regression testing for your front end

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Post by divdev_ » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 4:56 PM UTC

drewbitt wrote: post #7

ollybee wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "getting started" directs me to give permissions for Lost Pixel to "act on my behalf" on my github account. I don't feel comfortable with that.

Github has poor user permission features. Apps often have no choice but to request for broad permissions even when they don't need them. Github really needs to improve on that.

We have improved our FAQ section to make sure it reflects why we need the permission. We have really tight github integration and creating status checks on github is impossible wihout GH permissions. We ask for the bare minimum!